FORMER TEACHER RICHARD ALSTON SENTENCED FOR CHILD ABUSE
A former teacher at a remedial school has received a prison sentence of one year and nine months following convictions for sexually abusing a student during the 1970s.Richard Alston, aged 70 and residing on Vinery Road in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, was employed at Cavendish School located in Ealing, west London, from 1975 to 1980.
He was known to be the partner of Peter Righton, the founder of the Paedophile Information Exchange.
Court proceedings revealed that both Alston and Righton coerced an 11-year-old student into watching pornography and later performing sexual acts on the pair at their residence in Greenford, west London.
Righton, who passed away in 2007, was a founding member of an organization established in the 1970s that advocated for reducing the age of consent.
He was 19 years older than Alston, who was only 16 when they became acquainted.
The court was informed they maintained a relationship for around 40 years.
The investigation into Righton, who had been convicted in 1992 for importing child abuse images, prompted MP Tom Watson in 2012 to invoke parliamentary privilege to claim that there was ‘clear intelligence’ indicating the existence of a VIP child sex abuse network.
The victim, whose identity remains confidential, reported the abuse to authorities in 2013.
The abuse took place between February 1978 and February 1980, during which the boy attended a school then described as serving “maladjusted boys.”
